Photo Spotlights

Soon-to-be graduates gather ahead of RIT’s 133rd commencement celebration. At the Academic Convocation, RIT President David Munson conferred degrees upon some 3,500 undergraduate and graduate students. College ceremonies take place throughout the day today and Saturday.

Lindsay Owens, post-doctoral project coordinator in the Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning, and Evaluation (CASTLE), discussed her research with Provost Jeremy Haefner. “The Ideal Physics Graduate Student” was a collaboration with faculty Benjamin Zwicki and Casey Miller. CASTLE) celebrated RIT faculty and student research May 9.

Lydia Versluys from the class of 2018 received her white coat. RIT’s Physician Assistant Program held its 20th annual coating ceremony on May 10.

Seniors decorated their caps for graduation during Senior Week. The College Activities Board provided lettering, glitter, glue and paints for students to use to decorate their mortarboards May 9 in the SAU Fireside Lounge.

Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management and Career Services James Miller is retiring after 50 years with RIT. After several talks from past and present RIT presidents and colleagues, Miller shared his personal thoughts to the crowd in the University Gallery at his retirement party.

Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management and Career Services James Miller, center, is retiring after 50 years with RIT. Here, he shares a laugh with Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Jeremy Haefner, left, and Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration James Watters at his retirement party.

RIT held a farewell reception for Jeremy Haefner, who has been the university’s provost for 10 years. Haefner is stepping down as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at RIT to become the provost and executive vice chancellor at University of Denver.

President David Munson, left, presents Provost Jeremy Haefner and his wife, Maurin, with a gift at a farewell reception on Monday. Haefner has been the university’s provost for 10 years. He is stepping down as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs to become the provost and executive vice chancellor at University of Denver.

RIT Trustee Frank Sklarsky ’78 (business administration/accounting) and his wife, Ruth, were on campus to celebrate the naming of the Sklarsky Center for Business Analytics in Saunders College of Business May 4.

Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli, a graduate from RIT’s criminal justice program, received the Contributions to Justice Award at the Department of Criminal Justice and Center for Public Safety Initiatives Luncheon May 4.

Bevier Gallery is exhibiting MFA Thesis work from CIAS’ School of Art and the School for American Crafts until May 12. The BFA Senior Exhibition in ceramics, furniture design, glass, metals and jewelry design opens May 4, 6-9 p.m. at Gallery r.

The BFA Senior Exhibition in ceramics, furniture design, glass, metals and jewelry design is on view at Gallery r through May 13.